[ssba] In what can only be categorized as a state-wide crack down on the filming of police, multiple incidents have emerged this past week alone resulting in the arrest, intimidation, and assault of various Virginia residents. First, in Norfolk on June 7, Police Sergent Peele, who is assigned to the Homeland Security Division, arrested Jeremiah Schwenk for simply recording an ...

[ssba] Atlanta area police and parking enforcement wing Park Atlanta are taking road pirating to a whole new level. Numbers show they are now issuing almost double the number of tickets normally written in prior years. Park Atlanta wrote 141,000 tickets in 2010. In 2012 they wrote 221,000, according to documents obtained by WSBTV. The city received millions of dollars in ...

[ssba] A Georgia family is outraged after a SWAT team raided their home in the middle of the night and seriously injured their 19-month-old boy, reports WSBTV. While preforming a no knock raid at around 3:00 am, deputies with the Cornelia Police Department confirm that the child was injured by a flash band grenade that exploded after being thrown into ...

[ssba] Dhoruba Bin-Wahad, an African-American Atlanta area man, has filed a formal complaint against Clayton County authorities regarding a May 2 incident when police were called to his residence by neighbors reporting a “suspicious” person. “I assumed — apparently incorrectly, and naively — that they were pursuing someone on foot that had fled through my yard, and I was unaware ...

[ssba] Disturbing footage has surfaced of an Ohio Deputy violently throwing a woman to the ground and attempting to pry her mouth open after she took a prescription Tylenol. Siobhan Householder, 35, of Akron, was in a holding area waiting to make a court appearance when she took the medication for a tooth infection. Surveillance footage shows Summit County Sheriffs ...

[ssba] Ohio police are facing a lawsuit after blinding a passenger in a routine Fayette County traffic stop by tasering him directly in the eye. Dashcam footage shows a Sheriff’s deputy and an Ohio State Highway Patrol Trooper used excessive force in deploying a taser and stunning Matthew David Kelly twice, causing him to lose vision in his right eye. ...

[ssba] An 24-year-old Albuquerque, New Mexico man is reeling after a police officer kneed him in the groin with enough force to shatter his testicle during a traffic stop. Jeremy Martin, a law student at the University of New Mexico ended up losing his testicle as a result, after an unsuccessful emergency surgery attempt. According to police, Martin was driving ...